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Chris Hedges

Chris Hedges

Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief for the paper. He is the host of the Emmy Award-nominated RT America show On Contact. His most recent book is "America: The Farewell Tour" (2019).

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World's Most Powerful Imprison Julian Assange for His Virtues—Not His Vices

The Wikileaks founder exposed the truth over and over and over until there was no question of the endemic illegality, corruption and mendacity that defines the global ruling elite. And for these truths they came after him, as they have come after all who dared rip back the veil on power.

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A wounded Palestinian girl is being brought to Indonesian Hospital to receive medical treatment after Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, on May 10, 2021 in Beit Lahia, Gaza. (Photo: Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Israel Is Carrying Out Mass Murder, Aided and Abetted by the US

Israel is not exercising "the right to defend itself" in the occupied Palestinian territories. It is carrying out mass murder. It is a war crime. 

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Imperial ineptitude is matched by domestic ineptitude. (Photo: Getty Images/Stock Photo/Carlina Teteris)

The Collapse of the American Empire

U.S. leadership has stumbled from one military debacle to another, a trajectory mirroring the sad finales of other historical imperial powers.

Chris Hedges ·

Activists participate in a "DC Rally for Collective Safety—Protect Asian/AAPI Communities," hosted by OCA—Asian Pacific American Advocates, at McPherson Square March 21, 2021 in Washington, DC. Activists took part in the rally in response to the Atlanta, Georgia spa shootings that left eight people dead, including six Asian women, and the rising number of attacks against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders since the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

The Evil Within Us: Evangelicals and Mass Murder in Atlanta

Millions of largely white Americans, hermetically sealed within the ideology of the Christian Right, yearn to destroy the 'Satanic' forces they blame for the debacle of their lives. And one such evangelical just killed eight people in Atlanta.

Chris Hedges ·

A homeless person is seen on a cold weather in Manhattan of New York City, United States on February 23, 2021. (Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

The American Rescue Plan Does Not Address the Deep-Rooted Inequality Killing Us

Biden's bailout will not alter the structural inequities and other fundamental underpinnings of America's death spiral.

Chris Hedges ·

The ruling class devotes tremendous resources to mask this social murder. (Photo: Getty/Stock/Jose A. Bernat Bacete)

The Age of Social Murder

The ruling elites, despite the accelerating and tangible ecological collapse, mollify us, either by meaningless gestures or denial.

Chris Hedges ·

New York Young Republicans gathered at Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan for a so-called "Re-Occupy Wall Street" demonstration in New York City, United States on January 31, 2021. (Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

The Oligarchy Knows Class Warfare Is the Real Fight—Why Don't Liberals?

The Democrats and Republicans have legalized a level of greed and fraud that even heirs of the robber barons thought unsustainable.

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Assange earned the eternal enmity of the Democratic Party establishment by publishing 70,000 hacked emails belonging to the Democratic National Committee and senior Democratic officials. (Photo: Hollie Adams/Getty Images)

The Empire Is Not Done with Julian Assange

As is clear from the memoir of one of his attorneys, Michael Ratner, the ends have always justified the means for those demanding his global persecution.

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